Mat 13:3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
Mat 13:4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
Mat 13:5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
Mat 13:6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
Mat 13:7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
Mat 13:8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
Mat 13:9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Do you understand this basic parable? Even as a child, I was preached this basic parable many times at 2x2 indocrination meetings. And yet, I never understood it.

1. Who does the sower represent? (Jesus Christ, who was speaking to these people)
2. What does the seed represent? (The Word of God )
3. What does the sun represent? ( Persecution by evil people who hate Christians)
4. Who does the wayside soil represent? (People who didn't understand the word of God)
5. Who does the thorny soil represent? (People too taken up with cares of life, deceived by riches, and other things)
6. Who does the stony soil represent? ( People who didn't endure persecution because they had shallow understanding)
7. Who does the good soil represent? (People who heard the word of God, believed it and obeyed it)
8. Who do the fowls/birds represent? ( The devil, satan who removed the Word of God from our minds because we didn't understand it)
9. Which soil didn't allow the seed to grow? (only the wayside soil where the birds/Satan - snatched it away before they could understand it; distraction )
10. Which soil allowed the seed to grow? (All of them except the wayside soil )
11. Which soil allowed a harvest? ( Only the good soil that received the seed, had good depth of earth and was not overtaken with thorns)

What do you learn from this parable?

What I Was Taught as 2x2

I was taught that the sower was the 2x2 workers. The seed was what their message and the good soil represented the people who professed: some becoming professing people who had the workers over to their homes (thirty fold), some becoming elders with meetings in home (sixy fold) and others becoming workers (hundredfold). You can see what a far cry this is from what Jesus Christ the Son of God taught. This parable was about Jesus preaching to them right then, not about the workers.

The Difference

I hope that you can see the difference between the 2x2 message as taught by workers and the actual gospel taught be Jesus Christ. One message brings people to worship Jesus Christ and the other to follow after the workers. Jesus taught that no man can have two masters. We cannot follow the workers and Jesus Christ. There is a choice that has to be made since the workers preach a different Jesus and bring different spirit.